Improvement in trace-carriers



R. R. HART. Trace Carrier;

N 201,779. Patented March 26, 1878.

INVENTOR )a/r K.

ATTORNEYS W'TN ESSES iz; I

N PETERS, PHOTG-LIYHOGRAPHER, WASHXNGTON. D. c

-UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

,ROBERT R. HART, or ooELn'ILLrNoIs IMPROVEMENT lN TRAQE-CARR'IERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,779, dated March26, 1878 application filed February 23, 1878.

the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of part of a harness showing mytrace-carrier. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view. Fig. 3is a perspective detail of trace-carrier, and Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of the trace.

\ The nature of my invention consists in the construction andarrangement of a trace-carrier, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate myinvention.

In the drawings, A represents the back-strap of a harness, connected bya ring, B, to the crupper-piece G. D D are the hip-straps, connected tothe ring B, one on each side, as shown.

My trace-carrier, which is, in fact, a combined buckle andtrace-carrier, consists of two parallel side bars, F F, connected ateach end by two cross-bars, a a, forming between them, as it were, aslot for the passage of the hipstrap. The two side bars F F are alsoconnected by a central cross-bar, F, having a tongue, 12, projectingfrom both the top and bottom thereof. From the lower front crossbar a ofthe buckle extends an upwardlycurved hook, G, and on the upper frontcrossbar is pivoted an arm, H, which is arranged to close against theend of the hook Gr. At the end of the arm H is a projecting lip, d,which lies in a corresponding recess in the .side of the hook G at theend. The pivoted or upper end of the arm H is arranged with a spring, h,to hold said arm against the hook, or, in other words, to form a snapwith a side movement. v

The hip strap D is passed through the buckle, above or on the outside ofthe crossbar F, and the outer tongue on said bar is passed into a holein said strap. The end of the hip-strap is then passed through the ringB, and carried through behind the main part of the strap and on theinner or under side of the cross-bar F, the inside tongue 12 enteringanother hole in the strap. The hip-strap is thus easily attached inplace, and cannot come loose unless taken out.

When the trace is removed from the singletree the cockeye I at the endof the trace is put into the snap and held by the hook G, where it willremain, both when the harness is on or off the horse, and it cannot comeoff unless taken 0E, which can be easily and quickly done when desired.

At times hip-straps are dispensed with, and in such cases thetrace-carriers can be connected to short straps and fastened in the ringB, in the same manner as described for the hip-straps.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described combined buckle and trace-carrier, consisting ofthe side bars F F, center cross-bar F, with the tongues 11 b in oppositedirections, the end cross-bars a a, hook G, and snap or spring-arm H,with lip d,'all constructed substantially as and for the purposes hereinset forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribedmy name inthe presence of two witnessses.

ROBERT R. HART.

Witnesses MARCELLUS E. WRIGHT, G. B. WOODBURY.

